“The 613,” Book by Archie Rand

“The 613 may be the most audacious and distinctive book of its kind”-Blue Rider Press, Penguin Random House Publishers

“Wow!” “Splendid!” “Truth!” “Rat-a-tat!” “Dazzling!”

– Art Spiegelman -John Ashbery -Ang Lee -Jules Feiffer –Cynthia Ozick

Archie Rand’s career as an artist spans five decades and myriad themes and genres. Among his pioneering explorations, The 613 is surely one of his most ambitious feats yet. Without any idea where the work would be exhibited, Rand began transforming each and every one of the 613 mitzvahs, or commandments, into its own breathtaking painting, a series that took five years to complete. The New York Times describes the paintings as “rendered in the style of comics and pulp fiction book jackets, a dash of Mad magazine, a spoonful of Tales of the Crypt, some grotesques, some superheroes, always action, emotion, drama.”

“The 613” East Coast Calendar of Events

Copies of “The 613” published by Blue Rider Press (a division within Penguin Random House) are available for purchase and signing at the end of each event.

Program followed by reception for the groundbreaking series “The 54 Chapter Paintings” (1989) on display in its entirety for the first time as a solo exhibition in the Synagogue For The Arts Gallery / 7:00 pm

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